{"id":104774,"date":"2021-01-04T15:33:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=104774"},"modified":"2021-01-04T15:33:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:33:56","slug":"these-are-the-safest-airlines-in-the-world-by-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2021\/01\/these-are-the-safest-airlines-in-the-world-by-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"These are the safest airlines in the world by 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The AirlineRatings website has revealed the safest airlines for 2021 as part of its annual safety ratings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/en\/2020\/12\/american-airlines-restarts-commercial-flights-with-737-max.html\">American Airlines restarts commercial flights with 737 MAX.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 2021, the website gave first place to Australian airline <strong>Qantas<\/strong>, followed by <strong>Qatar Airways<\/strong> in second place, while <strong>Air New Zealand, Singapore Airlines and Emirates<\/strong> complete the top five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qantas held the title of the world&#8217;s safest airline from 2014 to 2017. In 2018, AirlineRatings indicated that it could not find a clear winner and chose to rank its top 20 equally, but once again in 2019 and 2020 Qantas was crowned the world&#8217;s safest airline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/en\/2020\/12\/emirates-introduces-its-premium-economy.html\">Emirates introduces its Premium Economy.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, it also highlighted the safest low-cost airlines, listing the top 10 in alphabetical order: <strong>Air Arabia, Allegiant, EasyJet, Frontier, Jetstar Group, Jetblue, Ryanair, Vietjet, Westjet and Wizz Air.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AirlineRatings keeps track of 385 airlines worldwide, measuring factors such as airlines&#8217; accident and serious incident records and the age of their aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Complete list of the 20 safest airlines by 2021:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Qantas<br>2. Qatar Airways<br>3. Air New Zealand<br>4. Singapore Airlines<br>5. Emirates<br>6. EVA Air<br>7. Etihad Airways<br>8. Alaska Airlines<br>9. Cathay Pacific Airways<br>10. British Airways<br>11. Virgin Australia\/Virgin Atlantic<br>12. Hawaiian Airlines<br>13. Southwest Airlines<br>14. Delta Airlines<br>15. American Airlines<br>16. SAS<br>17. Finnair<br>18. Lufthansa<br>19. KLM<br>20. 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